				POSSIBLE WORLDS

				      by 
		
			   Gerwin Sturm & Eike Umlauf



For installing instructions, please refer to the file INSTALL.TXT

For instructions on how to play, please read the HTML documentation in the /Docs directory
(index.html)

The original info file (MISC.TXT) was created for the university staff that rated
and tested our game when it was released (see below) and is therefore in German
and might not be of too much interest anyway. You might try feeding the Google Language
Tool (www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en) with it if you're interested, though, which
yields incredibly acceptable results ;)


FILES
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since this is the special C'T version 1.11 of Possible Worlds, Sourcecode is not included but can
be downloaded at http://possibleworlds.cjb.net
the changes to the sourceforge-version 1.1 are minor, i just made some changes to the game media and to the sound
routines.

Included in this file should be all files necessary to play Possible Worlds on any Microsoft Windows OS. For Linux you
may need to download an additional library, see the file INSTALL.TXT for more info on this.



INFO
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Possible Worlds is an openGL-accelerated 3D game that was created in the course of
a Computer Graphics lab exercise (www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/courses/CG23/HallOfFame.html)
at the Technical University of Vienna (www.tuwien.ac.at)
It won the competition for the best game hands down and we originally intended to develop
Possible Worlds even further with a network-multiplayer mode, more visual FX, etc..
Unfortunately, neither of us could be very much bothered to work on it any more in the
Summer holidays, probably because we were a bit burned out by the great amount of work
that was necessary to create this game in less than four months. Once university started
again in October 2001, we again had a lot of things to do at university and could not
get around to enhance Possible Worlds, so we decided we'd finally open-source our work
without all the enhancements we'd planned.
I was approached by german computer magazine C'T if i would like to see the game on their next cover
CD so i did some updates and released version 1.11 which you are about to enjoy.



We regret the development stop but we think the sourcecode might still be of interest
for quite a few people, although it might not be beautifully written at times ;)
That said, I still intend to do small updates on Possible Worlds, I'd still love
to see the caustics effect in action and I think the cockpit could use some enhanced
HUD too... and MORE MISSIONS!
A lot of people have emailed us about implementing Joystick or mouse support or other
minor changes. Now that Possible Worlds is open source, just grab the SDL-docs 
(www.libsdl.org) and this should be a matter of a few minutes. I don't like PC joysticks
much (they're crap for racing games) and I haven't got one, that's why joy support wasn't 
in the game all along.

Actually, I'm starting to think about my next project which will most likely be some kind 
of a fast 3D multiplayer game incorporating sheep and a mechanical wolf. Erm, yes :)


Finally, we want to thank you for playing our creation and hope you have as much fun
playing the game or browsing the source as we had writing it. We received quite a lot of
feedback and rave reviews at various gaming sites that made the whole thing worth it!

By the way, this is just an incomplete list of web sites that featured Possible Worlds.
There are probably many more, but these I recorded some time ago.

www.icewalkers.com
www.happypenguin.org
www.softgames.de
www.free-n-cool.com
www.linuxlinks.com
www.gamehippo.com
nehe.gamedev.net
www.freegamez.de
www.freewarepage.de
www.opengl.org
freshmeat.net
www.3dfiles.com	
www.giga.de (even on the TV show!!!)
www.penguingames.de
www.linuxgames.com
www.downloadbraxas.de
www.demo-files.com
www.freevault.com
www.game-revolution.com
www.gamesdomain.com
kyroscreens.net/possible_worlds.htm


Furthermore, the programmers cannot be held liable for any damage this software causes to you or your system, blah blah,
the usual legal stuff ;)



Eike & Gerwin
possibleworlds@eik.at
http://possibleworlds.cjb.net
07-05-2002





